On Thu, Jul 22, 2004, Bill Campbell wrote:
> [...]
> I ran into a problem building perl-dbi-5.8.5 while updating from
> an older version of perl-dbi. The DBD-SQLite-1.00/Makefile.PL
> script tests for earlier installed versions of DBD::SQLite,
> aborting if the operator doesn't answer a prompt to build.
>
> Given that we're not using DBD::SQLite, and that it isn't an
> option in the perl-dbi package, I hacked the perl-dbi.spec file
> to remove the ``eval'' block from the Makefile.PL allowing the
> package to build. The one I hacked is attached with a build date
> of tomorrow since the current one is 20040722 (anyway it's
> tomorrow in Germany :-).
>
> There are probably better ways to do this, perhaps an option to
> force the remove, or adding warning output to %post processing or
> setting an environment variable as is done in the postgresql
> updates in Release 2.0.
> [...]
Thanks for the patch. This is now fixed. Additionally this triggered
me to look at perl-dbi.spec in detail and I had to recognize that more
things in the perl-dbi package are broken. These I've fixed now, too.
Thanks for your feedback, Bill.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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